3 Reasons to Review Expat Tax & Pensions

Living With a Paradise Paper

If you are Living and Working Abroad in Paradise there may be a piece of paper on its way to you.

Big changes to Tax and Pension for Expats means the Tax Man in your home country and your country of residence may be sending you a letter or a tax demand in the next few months.

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3 Tax Men Interested in You

If you Live or Work Abroad then you have up to 3 tax men interested in you to discuss:

Tax returns due in your country of residence

Tax payments due in the country of your work.

Tax that could be claimed by your home country on world wide income and Pensions

Informers

For over 7 years banks, estate agents, Investment and Pension companies have been collecting personal information on you - name, residence, tax number - and sharing this information along with your income and gains with the taxman where you are resident.

This allowed some expats to declare tax in one country but not let a second know, even if they may be a tax charge due.

For example. If you don’t pay Expat tax in your country of residence, it remains due in your home country. But the home tax man could only claim extra tax from you if he knew.

Automatic Exchange

This loophole was previously fixed with the Savings Directive on sharing information that required financial institutions to report to one tax authority. Such sharing of income data is now subjected to Automatic Sharing between tax offices.

From 2017, tax offices around the world automatically exchange all the personal and income and pension information declared to them - by any individual or business country of residence, home country or where the work is done.

This opens all all tax office to all your income and Pension from around the world, automatically.

They have already started applying this new knowledge to make demands and enquiries for new tax payments from expats around the world.

Look Forward - Expats Tax & Pension Review

We offer a free review in our Cyprus office or online at which we will assess any gaps in your tax returns and registrations. We look at earned income, pensions, business , rental income, investment and royalties.